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"nucleus" of this networked society, they all act as nodes that are impacted, influenced, and
included in the network. Examples of this include global institutional rankings or bibliometrics in
which value and worth are determined by the very fact that all of these nodes (i.e. individual
scholars, academic entities, and knowledge sets) are included in the global field of higher
education. The connectivity of the world, through expanded digitization of communication,
trade, and political channels, has further contributed to the dynamic space of social and counter-
social movements. Yet this propensity for exclusion by the nuclear countries of the networked
society have perpetuated the imbalances within and between regions as "wealth and power are
spatially concentrated" (2022, p. 3). But Castells proposes the logic of resistance, much like
Marginson and Rhoades (2002), which exists within these spatial forms of dominance and power
through various "strong" identities (religious, national, ethnic, territorial, gender, and self-
defined identities), demonstrating a rejection and opposition between "the Net and the Self"
(Castells, 2022, p. 3).
The selection of supranational agencies and regional higher education organizations in
this study does not discount the breadth and importance of the micro-level. Importance lies in the
multilayered nature of globalization - the reconfiguration and appropriation of global processes
within a local context, not just the exogenous force of these processes at a broad, macro-level.
The plurality and diversity of higher education systems across countries and states are salient,meriting future work on this subject matter. However, in our current political, economic, and
social global topography, these macro- and meso-levels allow this study to not only align itself
with the trend of regionalization taking place around the world amidst vies for hegemonic status
(Snyder & Kick, 1974), but to recognize the crucial, and at times submerged, role of
supranational and regional figures in postsecondary educational globalism.33
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Moore, Mallory Carson. Westernization as Lingua Franca: Historical and Discursive Patterns of Hegemony in Global Higher Education, dissertation, May 2024; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2332627/m1/42/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .